[Before December 19, 1901]

[Introductory notes from the Sbornik edition provide background on journals and works referenced in Lenin's notes: "Kolokol" (The Bell), Herzen's revolutionary press; "Volnoye Slovo" (Free Word), the Geneva-based liberal publication of 1881–1883 founded with the knowledge of the Okhrana by members of the "Sacred League"; Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"; Engels's "The Peasant Question in France and Germany"; Engels's "On the History of Early Christianity"; Plekhanov's article in Die Neue Zeit; and various other works and journals referenced in Lenin's research apparatus.]

Petit [small type]

p. 3 ... The point is that in this strike there came face to face, on the one hand, one of the strongest and most well-organised workers' trade unions — the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (Amalgamated Steelworkers Association) — and on the other, the most powerful and wealthy capitalist organisation in America, and perhaps in the world, the so-called "two billion dollar trust" (two billion dol. trust), headed by the biggest financial figure J. Pierpont Morgan, and in which the biggest capitalists of America participate.

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(On the reverse side is given an editorial note — see text below.)

[The document includes Lenin's editorial annotations, marginal marks, and character counts for typesetting purposes, reflecting his hands-on editorial work for the Iskra newspaper. The article concerned the 1901 strike of American steelworkers against the United States Steel Corporation, led by J. P. Morgan — at the time the largest industrial combine in history — illustrating the confrontation between organised labour and monopoly capital.]